Determination of nanocrystal size distribution in magnetic multicore particles including dipole-dipole interactions and magnetic anisotropy: A Monte Carlo study

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1311, Issue , 2010, Pages 42-50

  Schaller, Vincent ^a   Wahnström, Göran ^a   Sanz Velasco, Anke ^a   Enoksson, Peter ^a   Johansson, Christer ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Imego AB The Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dipole dipole interactions; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic multicore nanoparticles; Magnetization; Metropolis algorithm; Monte Carlo simulation; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251544238     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3530051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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